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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has just revealed that Netflix’s House of Cards: The Complete Second Season will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on 6/17. Extras will include 5 featurettes (Two Houses, Table Read, Direct Address, Politics for Politics Sake, and Line of Succession).

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has set Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor for Blu-ray Combo and DVD release on 6/3. Blu-ray exclusive extras will include 4 featurettes (Will of the Warrior, Recreating the Firefight, Learning the Basics, and The Pashtun Code of Life). To this, both versions will add 2 more featurettes (Bringing the Story to Light and The Fallen Heroes of Operation Red Wings).

Also today, a quick heads-up: Criterion is announcing their July Blu-ray/DVD (Dual Disc) release slate later this afternoon, but it wasn’t ready as of press time. So watch the official website for updates and rest assured that we’ll check back in here at The Bits early tomorrow morning with all the title details and a look at the cover artwork.

On the catalog front, Warner Bros. has set New Line’s The Avengers and Rush Hour 2 for Blu-ray release on 8/12.

B2MP will release Tomorrow, starring Robert Duvall on Blu-ray/DVD Combo, exclusively on their website (b2mp.net). Pre-orders are on now with an SRP of $29.98 and shipping set to start later this month. Upcoming releases from B2MP include “a Native American silent film Blu-ray set, which will include The Last of the Mohicans and The Silent Enemy in high definition and The Vanishing American in standard definition, and a Blu-ray/DVD combo of Around the World With Orson Welles: The Complete Series, including the previously lost episode, Revisiting Vienna, aka The Third Man Returns to Vienna.”

Magnolia Home Entertainment will release Grand Piano on Blu-ray and DVD on 5/20, starring Elijah Wood and John Cusack.

And Shout! Factory has set The Angela Mao Ying Collection for DVD release on 5/12 (SRP $34.93). The set will include When Taekwondo Strikes (1973), Stoner (1974), The Tournament (1974), Queen’s Ransom (1976), The Himalayan (1976), and Broken Oath (1977).

In other news, note that CBS Home Entertainment has moved the street date for Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season Six and Star Trek: The Next Generation – Chain of Command on Blu-ray to 6/24 (from 6/3). Adjust your plans accordingly.

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